Kudos to Rockford Public Schools for the extra effort to recalibrate past testing records to reflect the new and improved "higher performance expectations."

"Comparing this year's scores to previous years will prove difficult unless school districts do as Rockford did, which was go back and apply higher performance expectations to past scores."

Now, if we can only encourage/support Dr. Jarrett and his leadership team efforts to expand upon REAL REPORTING of year-over-year student test results, i.e. show the rest of the story.

For example, more about kids who exceed education standards, and more reporting on kids who passed the test in previous years. We need to know if their score/performance continue to improve.

It seems we are more concerned about getting kids to PASS THE TEST, rather than striving for continuous improvement in ALL KIDS EDUCATION/LEARNING, rather than only hearing what we are doing for those kids NOT PASSING THE TEST.

I, for one, would rather have 50 percent of kids EXCEEDING education standards, not 75 percent simply doing "good enough" to meet standards.

I worry that once a kid passes the test nary a second look is given to insure such kids education/learning continues to improve because we only focus upon getting kids to pass the test.